Another wonderful piece. What stood out to me most was your description of how you move through digital space. The symbol coding, extra steps, the inefficiency that isn’t about intelligence but about interface design. Makes the whole thing concrete. I think your point about the pace of tech under capitalism is interesting, especially the question of whether the marginalization comes from the tools themselves or the speed and incentives behind them... Makes me think about how often “keeping up” is treated as a moral virtue.
Thank you so much 😊 I'm glad you liked this piece.
In my second book that I'm working on that goes into the deep structural and systemic issues that cause many neurodivergent people to be left behind, I plan on incorporating a chapter on technology that analyzes the digital sphere and how certain types of neurodivergent people end up being left behind by it. The book will then go into how one of the benefits of a more degrowth economy with more socialized production is that it could potentially obviate the prominence and necessity of such rapidly changing digital technologies, ushering in a very different relationship with digital technology in our society-- one that is not only less disenfranchising and marginalizing to certain sectors of the population but more ecologically sustainable.
I can almost see how an entire book could be written entirely on technology,neurodivergence and degrowth economics.
What a compelling direction for the book. The connection between neurodivergence, tech design, and economic structure feels important and def not talked about enough. I’m especially interested in how you’ll frame the relationship between degrowth and our dependence on constantly changing digital systems... really does feel big enough to be its own book. Excited to see how you develop it 😊
Another wonderful piece. What stood out to me most was your description of how you move through digital space. The symbol coding, extra steps, the inefficiency that isn’t about intelligence but about interface design. Makes the whole thing concrete. I think your point about the pace of tech under capitalism is interesting, especially the question of whether the marginalization comes from the tools themselves or the speed and incentives behind them... Makes me think about how often “keeping up” is treated as a moral virtue.
Thank you so much 😊 I'm glad you liked this piece.
In my second book that I'm working on that goes into the deep structural and systemic issues that cause many neurodivergent people to be left behind, I plan on incorporating a chapter on technology that analyzes the digital sphere and how certain types of neurodivergent people end up being left behind by it. The book will then go into how one of the benefits of a more degrowth economy with more socialized production is that it could potentially obviate the prominence and necessity of such rapidly changing digital technologies, ushering in a very different relationship with digital technology in our society-- one that is not only less disenfranchising and marginalizing to certain sectors of the population but more ecologically sustainable.
I can almost see how an entire book could be written entirely on technology,neurodivergence and degrowth economics.
What a compelling direction for the book. The connection between neurodivergence, tech design, and economic structure feels important and def not talked about enough. I’m especially interested in how you’ll frame the relationship between degrowth and our dependence on constantly changing digital systems... really does feel big enough to be its own book. Excited to see how you develop it 😊
Thanks, I'll likely be posting periodic updates on my book's progress here on Substack 😁